Drybread
Author(s): Owen Marshall
A graveyard is all that's left of the remote Central Otago settlement of Drybread, which miners, often hungry and disappointed, once searched for gold. It is to an old cottage nearby that Penny Maine-King flees with her young son, defying a Californian court order awarding custody of the child to her estranged husband. And seeking her in this austere, burnt country is journalist Theo Esler. He is after a story, but he discovers something far more personal and significant. Drybread, Owen Marshall's third novel, is a moving study of love and disappointment, of the harm we do to each other, knowingly and unknowingly, of the power and significance of landscape in our lives. Rich and subtle, it is a compelling book from one of this country's finest writers.
General Information
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- : Random House New Zealand Ltd
- : Vintage New Zealand
- : 0.256
- : 01 August 2007
- : New Zealand
- : 01 May 2021
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Owen Marshall
- : Paperback
- : 1st Edition
- : 280
- : Modern fiction
More About The Product
Novelist, short-story writer and poet, Owen Marshall has written or edited twenty-one books to date. Awards for his fiction include the New Zealand Literary Fund Scholarship in Letters, fellowships at Otago and Canterbury universities and the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship in Menton, France. In 2000 he received the ONZM for services to literature and his novel HARLEQUIN REX won the Montana New Zealand Book Awards Deutz Medal for Fiction. In 2002 the University of Canterbury awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters, and in 2003 he was the inaugural recipient of the Creative New Zealand Writers' Fellowship. Born in 1941, Owen Marshall has spent almost all his life in South Island towns, and has an affinity with provincial New Zealand.
